Holiday July 2003 part 4

Monday is mostly a quiet day, so most of
the day I stayed at the apartment.
I worked a little bit on the computer.
I sat in the sun on the terrace, looking
down the green valley of Buda.
We had nothing planned and early in
the evening we went to Pest to meet
another friend and eat something.
The bar we visited is in a walking street,
but it just started, so it was not busy.



We made an early night and next morning
I walked a little bit in downtown Pest.
There is so much to see that I can walk
for hours and hours and every time I
discover other places, statues or buildings.
And also there are so many nice parks
with beautiful trees in it and benches to rest.
This is a real great statue.



And another one.



Sometimes you walk through some streets
with really nice old buildings and then
you turn a corner and you walk into
the modern world.
One of the modern buildings
is this cigar tower.



Around lunch time I go mostly to a
very unknown but fine restaurant in Buda.
Young and old people eat hear and you
can take also the food with you to eat at home.



You can eat inside or outside and it is
a kind of silent rule that after you finished,
you bring back your plates to the kitchen.
This Janos the owner of the restaurant.



Here is the waiter that serves us seriously.



Another place I go regular is here
where I can change my money.
It is in the market hall in Pest.
The Forint is at the moment very week.
You get 260 Forint for 1 euro.
In February it was only 220 Forint.



A little bit further in that street I saw this
really little shop. I saw it first when they
were building it and I thought, what a strange
place for a shop window, but I was wrong,
they made a complete shop in less then 3
square meter.



That evening we should go to a open air bar
at the Sziget Island, to see a concert of Yengibarjan David,
but we got the wrong information out of the Pesti Est,
a little paper of more then 60 pages about what is going
on in Budapest. The concert was last week.
Here you see of my good friends.
Tamas, Viktor and Mark.



After a bottle of wine we left the island
and we went to a pretty new garden bar.
They played Spanish music when we came in.
On a flyer I read that on Saturday there
will be some live Spanish music.



The next days I walked around a lot and visited
some other friends I made here in the last year.
I even had a day without telephone and camera.
It was a strange free feeling.
On this picture you see 2 cops and 2 guys from
the parking office around a Trabant.
They could easily lift it up and put it
somewhere else.



Of course I had also to take a picture from
the parliament. This time I took it not from
the Danube side. I have been once in it and
it is very big and beautiful.



I found this tree close to downtown Pest
and when I took the picture, these 2 men
just passed and one probably told a joke.



This is just one of many churches in Budapest.



On this evening I was looking with Viktor
for a nice place to take dinner, when we
saw something was happening here.
It was the National Hungarian Orchestra
with Kocsis Zoltan as Conductor and they
played works from Beethoven and
Ferenc Listz. It was very nice.
On a big video screen you could
see close ups from the conductor
and from different musicians.
I have no zoom on this camera,
so you can hardly see the orchestra,
but believe me, it's there.



Go on to part 5